Resonus Classics
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Watkin's profound musicianship is more than enough to accelerate this recording of Bach's Cello Suites to the top of the tiny league of 'definitive' recordings...it's as if all the work that... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Instrumental Winner
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Building A Library, June 2026, Top Choice
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Innocence: Echo Vocal Ensemble
Ben Munden (tenor), Anna Semple (contralto), Hilary Cronin (soprano), Margaret Lingas (soprano), Echo Vocal Ensemble, Sarah Latto
Here is a deeply satisfying, centuries-spanning, thought-provoking debut album by the fine choral ensemble Echo...The highlight of the album is Howard Skempton’s luminous Yeats setting ‘He wishes... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Premiere
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This programme features repertoire rich in musical portraits...Fantasticus have established themselves as a white-hot addition to the early music scene. Fantasticus by name; fantastic by nature! —
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BBC Music Magazine, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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News of Great Joy: Christmas From St John's College, Oxford
The Choir of St John's College, Oxford
David Bannister
The performances are, in the best sense, unpretentious – there’s no straining after forced jollity or attention-grabbing effects, and each individual voice is comfortably embedded within the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2024, Christmas Choice
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Barbara Strozzi: Voices of Longing - Love Songs From 17th Century Venice
Emily Owen (soprano), Jenni Harper (soprano), Satoko Doi-Luck, Toby Carr, Ceruleo
the voices are pliant and ingratiating, and both singers cope gracefully with the composer’s florid and wide-ranging vocal lines. The three instrumentalists offer poised and thoughtful ensembles... —
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Every note’s function [is] painstakingly thought through...It’s true that there’s not a lot of recorded competition when it comes to this repertoire, but even if there were I’d wager this would... —
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La Gracieuse
Pièces de Viole by Marin Marais
Robert Smith (viola da gamba), Israel Golani (viola da gamba), Joshua Cheatham (viola da gamba), Olivier Fortin (harpsichord)
Smith is sympathetic, generous, introspective, romantic, adventurous in timbre…and his palette of sounds is enviably characterful…The overall listening experience is well crafted and charts... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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Here are performances of Bach’s six keyboard Partita’s with a difference, for Menno van Delft plays neither harpsichord nor any manifestation of piano but the softly spoken clavichord. —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2018, Instrumental Choice
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The most attractive aspect of this release is the free recreational sense of friends spending a Sunday evening together, getting high on caffeinated concertos. —
